Activated carbon is the most powerful odor eliminator known to science. Organic carbon has been naturally cleaning and purifying the earth's air and water since the beginning of time. Discovered by the ancient Egyptians, man found many uses for this natural purifier. Now the same organic material that has been used throughout history to clean and purify can be used to safely clean the air in your home.

Calgon Carbon’s activated carbon products are made from bituminous coal, coconut shell and wood. Calgon chooses these organic raw materials in order to provide the best activated carbon to its customers. Calgon activates its carbon by adding heat in a controlled environment of oxygen and steam. The activation process creates a highly porous graphitic plate structure with tremendous surface or adsorption area. It is the porous texture that gives activated carbon its tremendous ability to adsorb contaminants. A single pound of activated carbon has an adsorption surface area equal to 125 acres.

The activation process creates a natural attractive force that adsorbs contaminates because they are drawn to the carbon. Technically, this attractive force is referred to as the Van der Waals force. It is this attractive force that enables adsorption of contaminates to occur. Contaminates like odor molecules, gases and impurities are adsorbed into the porous texture of the activated carbon and locked away for good. This process occurs at a higher level of efficiency than any other purifier, therefore making activated carbon the most powerful odor eliminator known to science, and the cornerstone of all our consumer products.